{"id":1143,"date":"2018-11-23T13:57:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T04:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2022-04-03T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T04:48:53","slug":"converting-killer-lan-wlan-cards-to-atheros-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/converting-killer-lan-wlan-cards-to-atheros-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting Killer LAN \/ WLAN cards to Atheros cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel frustrated by buggy drivers and softwares of Killer ethernet cards that come with your new gaming laptop or motherboard, it is possible to get rid of them by force replacing the drivers. I experienced continuous disconnection while creating a testnet with this card and it was unacceptable. I honestly have no idea why manufacturers even use this chipset even though people were complaining about this for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Killer chipsets are basically rebranded versions of existing Atheros chipsets, so\u00a0 you can simply override the default driver settings to make it function as an Atheros card.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Open the device manager<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1144\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-23-02_07_04-Device-Manager.png\" alt=\"2018-11-23 02_07_04-Device Manager\" width=\"795\" height=\"579\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. Right click on the LAN card and choose to update driver software<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1145\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-23-02_07_50-NVIDIA-GeForce-Overlay.png\" alt=\"2018-11-23 02_07_50-NVIDIA GeForce Overlay\" width=\"496\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Browse my computer for drivers<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1146\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-23-02_08_11-Update-Driver-Software-Killer-E2400-Gigabit-Ethernet-Controller.png\" alt=\"2018-11-23 02_08_11-Update Driver Software - Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller\" width=\"628\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Pick from a list on my computer<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1147\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-23-02_08_45-Update-Driver-Software-Killer-E2400-Gigabit-Ethernet-Controller.png\" alt=\"2018-11-23 02_08_45-Update Driver Software - Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller\" width=\"628\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Have driver disk<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1148\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-23-02_09_04-Update-Driver-Software-Killer-E2400-Gigabit-Ethernet-Controller.png\" alt=\"2018-11-23 02_09_04-Update Driver Software - Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller\" width=\"628\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. Choose the appropriate inf file for your device. There is a list of compatible drivers at the end of this article<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1149\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-23-02_09_43-Device-Manager.png\" alt=\"2018-11-23 02_09_43-Device Manager\" width=\"947\" height=\"766\" \/><\/p>\n<p>7. If the inf file contains multiple definitions, choose the appropriate model<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1150\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-23-02_10_04-Update-Driver-Software-Killer-E2400-Gigabit-Ethernet-Controller.png\" alt=\"2018-11-23 02_10_04-Update Driver Software - Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller\" width=\"628\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>8. Ignore the warning and proceed<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1151\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-23-02_10_15-Update-Driver-Warning.png\" alt=\"2018-11-23 02_10_15-Update Driver Warning\" width=\"496\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>9.You have a functional Atheros card now, goodbye retarded Killer drivers<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1152\" src=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-18-13_13_00-Device-Manager.png\" alt=\"2018-11-18 13_13_00-Device Manager\" width=\"525\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p>10. Remove the Killer suite from Add\/Remove Programs if you installed them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>List of compatible drivers:<\/p>\n<p>Killer E2200 &#8211; Atheros AR8151<br \/>\nKiller E2400 &#8211; Atheros AR8171<\/p>\n<p>Killer Wireless 1535 &#8211; Qualcomm QCA61x4A<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please tell me if you know any other compatible pairs, I&#8217;ll add them to this list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel frustrated by buggy drivers and softwares of Killer ethernet cards that come with your new gaming laptop or motherboard, it is possible to get rid of them by force replacing the drivers. I experienced continuous disconnection while creating a testnet with this card and it was unacceptable. I honestly have no idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/converting-killer-lan-wlan-cards-to-atheros-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Converting Killer LAN \/ WLAN cards to Atheros cards<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manatails.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}